Canadian Environmental and Disability Activist and Author, Franke James, has provided us with her review of our book, My Silence Roars. Ms. James is the author of Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me (external link), the story of her journey to keep her disabled sister out of nursing home placement arranged […]

Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve & the Case Against Disability Rights Nonfiction by Mary Johnson. In the spring of 2000, actor Clint Eastwood took on the 10-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act. His Mission Ranch hotel in Carmel, California, had been sued for access violations under the law, and he’d been slapped with a lawsuit he’d never […]

Essays on Mass Media Nonfiction by Beth A. Haller, Ph.D. Towson University journalism professor Beth A. Haller’s 20 years of research into disability and mass media inform this one-of-a-kind collection on advertising, news, entertainment television, film and Internet new media. Ideal for disability studies students and researchers as well as disability activists. 213 pp. Softcover. […]

As Emily vividly demonstrates, people with disabilities enhance our lives by being in our midst.

A Profile of a Futures Planning Group Compiled by Betty Atherton and Julie Shaw Cole. Edited by Julie Shaw Cole. Betty was up against the wall of her son’s disabilities. Organizations and agencies in her community hadn’t responded to her repeated pleas for support. She had knocked on every door and was about to give […]

Edited by Mary Johnson & Barrett Shaw. Photos by Tom Olin. Foreword by Stephanie Thomas. The issue may be lifts on buses. But what we are doing is building a movement. — Mike Auberger, ADAPT, 1983 For the first time in book form . . . The bus battles across the nation: The national ADAPT […]

Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller Edited by Beth A. Haller, Ph.D. In Byline of Hope, Towson University journalism professor Beth A. Haller has collected Helen Keller’s writing for newspapers and magazines — articles for Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and The Home Magazine — many of them […]

The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag. Anthology edited by Barrett Shaw. (external link) “The Disability Rag is the voice of a mighty revolution, and this stunning collection from its first 15 years will become an invaluable primer for anyone who wants to understand the new thinking […]

Your all-in-one how-to guide: Tips, techniques & handouts for a successful Awareness Day from the Ragged Edge Online community Handbook edited by Mary Johnson. Simulation exercises — activities in which participants get into wheelchairs, tie on blindfolds or stuff earplugs into their ears to “simulate” having a disability — have become a popular “Awareness Day” […]

How to Get News Coverage of Disability Rights Issues Nonfiction by Tari Susan Hartman & Mary Johnson. Worried about anti-disability spin in the media? Fight back — make your own news! Get on the front pages, lead the newscasts, influence public debate. This how-to book gives examples, tips. 165 pp. Paperback. | Kindle | ePub […]